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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Creating or producing excitement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; stimulating: as, exciting events; an exciting story.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement
- adjective (Med.) those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
excite . - adjective
creating orproducing excitement
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective creating or arousing excitement
- adjective stimulating interest and discussion
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Examples
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What makes playoffs like this exciting is the fact that you have teams that have not been in it for a while or not been in it forever and it mixes things up.
'Shop Talk': The Political Witchunt For Christine O'Donnell 2010
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What makes playoffs like this exciting is the fact that you have teams that have not been in it for a while or not been in it forever and it mixes things up.
'Shop Talk': The Political Witchunt For Christine O'Donnell 2010
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What makes playoffs like this exciting is the fact that you have teams that have not been in it for a while or not been in it forever and it mixes things up.
'Shop Talk': The Political Witchunt For Christine O'Donnell 2010
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What makes playoffs like this exciting is the fact that you have teams that have not been in it for a while or not been in it forever and it mixes things up.
'Shop Talk': The Political Witchunt For Christine O'Donnell 2010
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What makes playoffs like this exciting is the fact that you have teams that have not been in it for a while or not been in it forever and it mixes things up.
'Shop Talk': The Political Witchunt For Christine O'Donnell 2010
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What makes playoffs like this exciting is the fact that you have teams that have not been in it for a while or not been in it forever and it mixes things up.
'Shop Talk': The Political Witchunt For Christine O'Donnell 2010
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What makes playoffs like this exciting is the fact that you have teams that have not been in it for a while or not been in it forever and it mixes things up.
'Shop Talk': The Political Witchunt For Christine O'Donnell 2010
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The House of Lords has reconvened after the recess in exciting times - some might say too exciting.
Current Affairs Maxine 2009
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Seriously, how exciting is that for two children at Christmas time?
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What makes the Met so exciting is in the very risks they take.
Patricia Zohn: CultureZohn: Singing in the Streets Patricia Zohn 2010
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- acceptable
- adorable
- agitating
- agreeable
- alluring
- amazing
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- appetizing
- ardent
- arresting
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- come-hither
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- desirable
- disquieting
- distracting
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- electric
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- emphatic
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- hypnotic
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- incentive
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- irresistible
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- mouth-watering
- moving
- overcoming
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- pleasing
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- siren
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- to be desired
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- warm
- winning
- winsome
- witching
- worth having
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